Wilson Jones 812B Looseleaf Phone/Address Book, 1" Capacity, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, Black Vinyl, 80 Sheets

I ordered this to replace a beloved, aesthetically interesting address notebook that has disintegrated. We stuff ours in totes when we travel and it gets a regular workout at home for all the information we store in it. I did not want to punt to a vinyl clad binder, but I really don't want to have to copy the contents of the address book over to another book for the rest of my life, so I'm going with utilitarian and longevity. I wanted a ring binder so I can add my own pages. The ring system works well on mine, and I appreciate the size, which will fit in a laptop bag pocket, tote or large purse. The dividers are a manilla vellum with 16 or 18 pt. gold stamped letters on paper tabs that look like brown leather. This is no nonsense. The logo on the front of mine is slightly different than the image you see on this page--it includes a picture of a phone handset in a circle, which is repeated on the spine. Whoever worked the stamping machine the day it was made skewed it on the spine. Oh well.The reason I am not jumping up and down screaming how much I love this is, aside from settling for something less cool than I had before, the spaces for entering information are restrictive, apparently designed before the advent of cell phones, fax numbers and email addresses. Really. But with the number of entries provided (it says 1,600), I can dedicate more than one space to someone with lots of contact information, so I'm not sweating it.

I'm not exceedingly old but I like to keep my addresses in an address book and the one I had was just not cutting it for me because of all the other doo dads attached to it. I found when shopping in stores apparently I'm about the only one left who likes to write addresses down so I had to order an address book. I couldn't even take myself seriously as I shopped online for an address book because I remember a day an age where people had too many address books because they got them free all the time.How I landed on this particular address book (because there are certainly many many cheaper options there) is a variety of reasons. I don't particularly like to keep my names in alphabetical order. Yup that's right I said it. So I wanted an option to not use tabs and just have sheets of paper. I wanted a lot of sheets of paper so I didn't have to buy another one soon. I didn't want one of those ones that is way too small to write in with a normal ball point pen. And finally I'm left handed so anything I can pull the sheets out of, write on, and put back in gets bonus points from me. This fit the bill. It's not pretty. It's not purse sized. It's actually almost retro office supply cabinet style of book. It's not something you'll leave sitting out or you will get teased. And mine even arrived a little dusty but it was a comfort to me.This is the address book for me.

To tell the truth, I intend to use the filler pages and indexed tab pages of this item in an old fabric-cover address book made by Day Runners. The Day Runners product has a more durable binder. It also offers more space for each entry on the filler pages. But Day Runners no longer markets that product. It does market replacement pages, but the new alphabetical tab dividers put 2 or more letters on one divider. This does not work for me. The Wilson Jones product has only one letter on each alphabetical tab divider, with one exception ("XYZ"). Its dividers and filler pages fit the 3-ring Day Runner notebook perfectly and, in my opinion, are better than what Day Runners now offers.Some comments have complained about the quality of the Wilson Jones binder. I do note that it is fairly typical of the small notebook binders that one finds in school supply and stationery stores these days. This is of no consequence to me, as I bought it solely for its binder pages and index pages. The Day Runners binder into which I intend to insert them remains a vastly superior binder, even after over a decade of use.

I wanted a loose leaf address book with alphabet dividers and pages included. I wasn't worried about cosmetics -I own duct tape. That's just what I got. Their description is cute. Traditional round rings. Translation ... Obsolete round rings rather than better engineered "D" rings. And they are not one touch open and close. But it's an address book I don't plan on opening it several times a day. The binder was loaded with blisters on the cover. I was nervous removing the UPC sticker. The alphabet dividers are bottom tier. There is a reinforcement strip for the holes. The divider stock is not as heavy as the address pages. The tabs are cheap wanna be leatherette. The gold letters have very little contrast with the brown tabs. There is a tab for each letter except "Y" and "Z" share a tab. But nothing is perfect and this set did something right. The address pages are fine if you don't want to put a complete dossier for each entry. That's why I have a really nice 8.5 x 11 set up. This is meant to be portable. You get 80 pages in the package. Each page has room for 10 entries per side and are printed on both sides. The entry has three lines bwith a wide side for the address and a narrow side for phone number. If you write small and ignore the labels you can enter three numbers. The paper is heavy weight and is an, easy on the eyes, light green. There are only address pages no add ons except the back of the face sheet is a U.S. Map with time zones and area codes. The bottom of the face sheet has an area for emergency phone numbers because 9-1-1 is so difficult to remember. I'm very pleased with the pages. The binder and dividers are barely acceptable and easily replaced when the time comes.

I like the fact that you can replace torn sheets or mistakes with fresh pages. The line spacing is nice and wide so that when you write you don't feel like you're cramping in a lot of words into a small space. Also you can remove the pages and write in them and not have the rings get in the way. And if you need to add some more entries to keep some semblance of alphabetical order you can just slip in a sheet and have the addresses in a pretty alphabetical good order.

An adequate number of well defined printed pages are included and the indexing dividers are separate and clear to use.

great item

For the money it cost I am disappointed as the cover is not robust and would expect this to be worn out in less than a year so much so I have not used it yet and may not even bother.

I have found it to be nice to use and having extra paper available will make it handy when I want to add new addresses etc....

Got it delivered today. It was not the exact one in the image, it's actually the one from a different product picture advertising a different version of the product. Which, I specifically ordered this one because the cover's text was nicer and more aesthetically pleasing. But that's okay, it's going to do what it needs to do.